How To Protect Your Focus Time Like It’s The Royal Mint Vault

We’re all overwhelmed with information. It’s the 24 hour CNN effect.

It’s happening within your office walls.

Coworkers are blasting through the door, or around your cubicle like they witnessed a UFO landing.

OMG. Did you listen to the recent Joe Rogan podcast?

And…focus lost.

I’ve created a coping mechanism over the years to avoid this.

It’s why my team was scared to come into my office.

My focus time is essential.

One interruption causes me mental strain and disrupts my focus.

It’s frustrating.

My coping mechanism isn’t the best solution.

In fact, it’s the worst.

My team would come into my office, and I would give them the “what the fuck are you doing in here” stare.

Some days, when I’m in a creative/strategic mode, I would bark off “WHAT?”

The problem with this is…everything.

I didn’t know I was doing it until someone really close to me said she cried after she came in.